The association of workplace hazards and smoking in a U.S. Multiethnic Working-Class Population

Public Health Reports

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-233

  Okechukwu, Cassandra A ^a   Krieger, Nancy ^b   Chen, Jarvis ^b   Sorensen, Glorian ^b,c   Li, Yi ^b,c   Barbeau, Elizabeth M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HEALTH DIALOG   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT;

ABUSE; ADULT; ARTICLE; DUST; ERGONOMICS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKPLACE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREJUDICE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 77950342361     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491012500211     Document Type: Article

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